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Is this a rebrand? I don’t remember it being called a “cloud computer”. (Or why else is this on HN?)
[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer
[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/launching-t...
I recently watch: Unplugging the Debugger - Live and postmortem debugging in a remote system - Matt Keeter [1] The talk was at the Open Source Firmware Conference. Pretty cool look into how their system works under the hood. [1] https://vimeo.com/877092565
> Get In Touch > Contact Sales Nope, hard pass. If you don't list your prices on your website I'm never going to be a customer.
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The specifications page [1] gives a bit more context. I think minimum buy is about a half rack, which includes at least 16 64-core CPUs, 16 TiB of RAM, and 465.75 TiB of NVMe SSD storage. Playing around a bit with the Dell server configurator tool, it seems like that is going to come in a rough ballpark of $1MM as stated in a sibling comment. [1]: https://oxide.computer/product/specifications
I do not purchase hardware, but $1MM is way above what I would have expected. Going to Dell, the most expensive pre-built rack mount starts at ~$30k. Assuming 16 of those only gets you to $480k. Throw in an extra premium for the rack itself + small company margins still leaves me reaching to get to that price point.
Enterprise CIO doesn’t want a hobby project (attempting to cobble together internal cloud orchestration and infra), they want to be able to show immediate business value. You charge what the market will bear. I’ve seen many companies with thousands of employees and spending millions, even tens of millions a month, on public cloud providers and just flail, unable to get to steady state post transformation (even after years of trying). This is made for those folks, especially with Broadcom having VMware self inflict harm on itself with recent strategy decisions.
“Write check. Cloud up.”
(no affiliation)
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You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
Grift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
Would love to know what the minimum buy in is on one of these
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You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
Grift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware
Grift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
It’ll probably be a while before i get a chance to work on one of these machines, but I had a chance to meet a couple employees, Steve Klabnik and Travis Haymore, at a “Beers and Boards” meetup Oxide put on after a conference in Raleigh last year. They were really cool, as were a lot of the local folks that showed up. Would highly recommend going if they ever do one in your city!
steve is so cool. i wish we had more steves. we need more people like steve